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It was implicit in the word itself, and well understood by the Greeks who used it, that the term "philosophy" referred not to worldly wisdom--in the sense that the Jesuit Baltasar Gracian used it--but to divine wisdom.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 1 : Toward Defining Philosophy > # 141